‘Let’s not be ageist about the OAA!’
Advocacy and the OAA: The Environment Is Very Different These Days
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At Almost 60, It’s Time for a Life Review of the OAA as it Approaches Eligibility Age
How will the OAA’s accomplishments match up to the increasing numbers of elders and lack of caregivers?
Difficulties Demonstrating the Impact of OAA Programming and Glimmers of Hope
Consumers, local providers, state agencies, and federal policymakers all want data about older adults being served.
Doing Business: A Pathway to Coordination
Why AAAs are busy contracting with community-based organizations, and how it’s paying off.
The Older Americans Act: Looking Back and Thinking Forward
The Act combines national policy aspiration and ambition in spreading services across America, plus optimism that our country can enable older adults age successfully in place.
Success: An Original Area Agency on Aging at 50 Years
SEVAMP embraced innovation as its guiding principle.
Reflections on Title VII 30 Years Later
A detailed, personal look at what’s in Title VII, what’s not, and what its funding covers.
Title VI of the Older Americans Act: Past, Present, and Future
‘In 2021, 282 Title VI grantees received more than $80 million in grant funding.’
Understanding the OAA’s Purpose and Role in the Modern Life of Older Adults
New resources help state aging directors learn the history of the OAA and how it works.
Vision: Meet Reality
Elusive historical topic, combined with COVID-19 challenges meant a difficult shepherding of this edition.
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Generations Journal, vol. 45, no. 4 (Winter 2021-22)
Advocacy and the OAA: The Environment Is Very Different These Days
Abstract: A discussion between Generations Journal Guest Editor Rich Browdie, Robert Blancato, president of Matz, Blancato and Associates in Washington, DC, and Meredith Ponder Whitmire, vice president of Matz, Blancato, on how advocacy challenges around the Older...
At Almost 60, It’s Time for a Life Review of the OAA as it Approaches Eligibility Age
Abstract: The Older Americans Act's (OAA) impending age of eligibility is a good time to review accomplishments and opportunities for improvement. The OAA is celebrated for bringing social care for older people to the forefront of U.S. aging policy and programs. But...
Difficulties Demonstrating the Impact of OAA Programming and Glimmers of Hope
Abstract: The positive impacts of Older Americans Act (OAA) programs are often accepted as fact. If a home-bound older adult receives a home-delivered meal, or family caregivers attend support groups, or a tribal elder uses a wheelchair from a lending closet, then...
Doing Business: A Pathway to Coordination
Abstract: Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) respond to elders' needs in most communities in the United States, playing a critical role in assessing those needs and developing plans to address them. AAAs also evolve continuously, and the Older Americans Act (OAA) has...
The Older Americans Act: Looking Back and Thinking Forward
Abstract: What caused the Older Americans Act to come to fruition, how is it changing, how has it not changed, and what are its biggest challenges today? What impact has the push to integrate long-term services and supports into managed care organizations had? Key...
Success: An Original Area Agency on Aging at 50 Years
Abstract: Tracing the 1960s origins of what became one of the first of nine area agencies on aging in the U.S., led by influential women with ties to local power brokers and driven by poverty and social change movements. Southeastern Virginia Areawide Model Program,...
Reflections on Title VII 30 Years Later
Abstract: The 1992 Older Americans Act reauthorization included the creation of Title VII focused on advocating for rights of vulnerable older adults, improvements in the long-term care ombudsman program, efforts to prevent abuse, neglect, and exploitation,...
Title VI of the Older Americans Act: Past, Present, and Future
Abstract: Title VI grants may never have happened were it not for a group of activists dedicated to advancing equity for Indian Country elders. In 1978, Congress created a Title VI under Amendments to the OAA, establishing grants funded by setting aside Title III...
Understanding the OAA’s Purpose and Role in the Modern Life of Older Adults
Abstract: The story of the forming of the National Association of State Units on Aging, now known as ADvancing States, and the Older Americans Act (OAA) objectives for programs for older Americans. The article also addresses funding for this programming and the...
Vision: Meet Reality
When the ASA Generations Editorial Advisory Board invited me to guest edit an edition of Generations Journal on the Older Americans Act (OAA), I jumped at the chance. Having been involved with one aspect or another of the Act my entire career, I visualized a whole...
Balancing Mission and Momentum
Abstract: Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) are entering a new phase marked by a heightened focus on social determinants of health. With a mission, a history, and a legislative mandate to serve as the local hub for a coordinated system of health- and...
The Older Americans Act from the Inside: An Interview with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aging Edwin Walker
Winter 2021-22 Generations Journal Guest Editor Rich Browdie in July 2021 spoke with Edwin Walker about the history of the OAA and his part in it. Rich Browdie (RB): You joined the Administration on Aging (AoA) in the 1990s, but prior to that you were a part of the...
On the Older Americans Act and Why We Need to Pay Attention to History
Americans as a group have an unfortunate tendency toward historical amnesia. Not everyone, of course, but in general we seem to prefer to repeat what has gone before and then wonder what happened, rather than preventing disasters in the first place, e.g., learning...
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Generations Journal is the quarterly journal of the American Society on Aging. Each issue is devoted to bringing together the most useful and current knowledge about a specific topic in the field of aging, with emphasis on practice, research, and policy.